Comments on: Your greatest influence?http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/2520/your-greatest-influence/
A life of joy, love, heartache, and challengeSun, 02 Nov 2014 16:08:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: Teri Conroyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/2520/your-greatest-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-3567
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:51:47 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3567Diane, It’s like Mare said in #8 – sometimes negative influences have the most positive influence on us.
I didn’t have the ideal dreamy childhood either, but I wouldn’t trade any of it because it sure has had an affect on the person I’ve become.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:22 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3538I also have to say my Mom has been my greatest influence. She came from a horrible childhood and had six children of her own. She raised us all with love and compassion. She is one of the strongest woman I have ever meet in my life and if I am half the woman she is today, when I get to be her age, I will be forever grateful. My Mom taught us all about the little things in life and how important a hug is!
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:41:42 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3532Mommy! Yes, the extended family most certainly influenced me a lot – I could have written a book, but you know that. Grandparents, aunts and uncles – always there for us. As a family, we are beyond blessed and it continues to this very day, and it’s a pretty safe bet that the influences of this family will continue for generations. Maybe someday we will even have to move Thanksgiving dinner from our family room to the 50′ aisle in the new barn!
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:25:42 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3531Teri
Your incredible memory never fails to astound me!! I hadn’t ever thought about the quarter holder, but vou’ve brought it so clearly back. I guess I’d have to say that my influence was my mom too, but the whole huge extended family as well — don’t they say it takes a village? Thank you for your wonderful comments — I’m beyond flattered!
Love ya
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:40:08 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3530Mare, It makes such perfect sense that I’m crying. You hit a good nail on the head. Thanks.
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade – or become a better person…
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:32:21 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3529What about the people that impact you in a negative way. So much so that you don’t want to be like them and so you strive to be a better person. So while the initial influence is bad it turns out to be a good thing. make sense? That’s my experience.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:39:45 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3528Hokie Mom – Your comment certainly made me stop to think, I really appreciate that. Who do WE influence?
Donald – I love that Nana Hannah.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:35 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3527I agree with Hokie Mom that we are in reality probably the aggregate of everything and every one who influenced us. Ialso would find it difficult to identify enormous influences in my life, but I do identify a lot with Nana Hannah, my maternal grandmother, a tiny woman with a steel will and an iron fist, who set all the social rules for her clan. I learned a lot about grit from her. I learned a lot about compassion from someone I used to spend time with who sure did expend a lot of time and energy on me. The rest has been a kind of always-on-the-stove soup kettle that has a little something new tossed in from time to time to change the flavor. [Some of what I've picked up right here being an example of that.]
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:25:53 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3526Breezey – Certainly your teacher counts as an influence! Actually, my 8th grade English teacher, Mr. D., was a great influence on my writing. I was big into Thoreau at the time and had been spending time in the woods way back behind my house – Mr. D. suggested I start keeping a ‘journal’. He encouraged me, and of course a ‘journal’ sounds much more mature than a ‘diary’. I’m still writing.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:24:39 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/farmlife/?p=2520#comment-3525My Mom for who I am today, for the kindness, empathy, and strength. Her Mom for helping me get the job I have today, going on 26 years now. And lastly, my husband. He is what makes me feel whole every day. If it wasn’t for who they are, I don’t think I would be who I am or where I am and that’s Happy!!!
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